föhnen
German, verb
föhnen is spelled F-Ö-H-N-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 76,606th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Föhnen is a German verb meaning “to blow-dry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Föhnen is a different word: “dative plural of Föhn”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas (in der Regel die Haare) mit einem Föhn trocknen”.
What does föhnen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to blow-dry
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Föhn
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas (in der Regel die Haare) mit einem Föhn trocknen 2. stark, heftig wehen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of föhnen
- föhnt present singular third-person
- föhnte past
- geföhnt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- föhnend participle present
- föhne first-person indicative present
- föhnst indicative present second-person
- föhnest second-person singular subjunctive
- föhnet plural second-person subjunctive
- föhnten first-person indicative plural
- föhntest indicative preterite second-person
- föhntet indicative plural preterite
- föhn imperative second-person singular
- habe geföhnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geföhnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- fönen obsolete
- föhn! imperative singular
- föhne! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is föhnen in German?
föhnen appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).